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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Seething hate... burning rage... searing anger...
Message-ID: <426@unc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 10:39:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: unc.426
Posted: Wed Jun 12 10:39:33 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Jun-85 06:12:04 EDT
References: <trwatf.979>
Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

In article <trwatf.979> root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) writes:
>
>But now I walk into a computer store and what do I find?  Salesmen
>in three-piece suits with glitzy business cards trying to sell me
>an IBM PC (puke!) and some dumb spreadsheet software.  It's all
>an appearance... an affectation, designed to give business people
>that nice warm feeling.  "Well GEE... the nice man in the three-peice
>suit looked so professional, I naturally assumed that he knew what
>he was talking about."
>
>Ya know what's REAL fun though?  Go into one of these stores dressed
>in a t-shirt and jeans.  Of course they'll think you're just some bum
>off the street.  If you look to be very young for your age and
>corporate position (which I am) then all the better!  They'll
>think you're some high-school hacker.  The trap is set!
>
>Now let them brow-beat you for a while.  "Well sir, we sell BUSINESS
>systems here.  Why don't you go to the Radio Shack down the street if
>you want a system within your price range?"  "When you have some money,
>why don't you come back and see us and we'll actually sell you
>something."  That's when you inform them that you were actually
>scouting out systems for your large DP department, but since they're
>going to take that kind of attitude they can FUCK OFF and SHOVE THAT
>DEGENERATE PC UP YOUR SLEAZY PRINTER PORT!  WHY DON'T YOU GO BACK TO
>SELLING USED-CARS YOU SYCOPHANTIC COMPUTER-WHORE YOU!
>Then you storm out of the store....

And as you leave, they'll say to each other,
"Gee, this guy is _so_ much more mature than he looks!" :-)